Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Shakespeare is a great writer in either the subject of sonnets or plays.
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In this report I will explain one of Shakespeare’s sonnets. I will also make a report on the structure of his sonnets.
Shakespeare’s sonnets are structured in a way that they can induce someone to continue reading. He does this by using words that not only rhyme at the end of a line but also have meaning and may be the opposite of another word, such as:
The mad cricket is green
The sad cat is red
Most of Shakespeare’s sonnets are based on the principle of A, B, A, B. This means that line 1 rhymes with line 3 and line 2 rhymes with line 4.
One of Shakespeare’s main topics is the seasons; his other main topic is emotions. Shakespeare writes his poems like it is happening to him right then and there. Shakespeare’s main emotional topics are: Love, Sadness and Anger.
Shakespeare’s writing is a very simple form of poetry. His sonnets are comprised of two main ideas, Single word poetry and A, B, A, B poetry. These ideas are the basic ways to a good piece of poetry.
Sonnet 1’
The following sonnet is Shakespeare’s first written sonnet and I will report on my interpretation of each line as well as the use of the principle A, B, A, B.
1. From fairest creatures we desire increase, From beauty your desire increases
2. That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, Hopefully beauty does not die
3. But as the riper should by time decease, But over time it shall die
4. His tender heir might bear his memory: Someone will remember it
5. But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, But is only in one persons eyes
6. Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Your beauty is fuelled by yourself
7. Making a famine where abundance lies, Making death where there is nothing
8. Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: You are your own enemy and too cruel to yourself
9. Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament, The worlds victory is new
10. And only herald to the gaudy spring, And you are but nothing between it
11. Within thine own bud buriest thy content, Hide away your beauty
12. And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding: You may as well enjoy life
13. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, Pity everyone or else you will be a fat pork
14. To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee. To bear every bad thing in the world to the grave
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